Ben Carlson

Why I Don’t Own Any Gold

Gold is on fire. The yellow metal is up more than 60% this year. It’s risen nearly 30% in the last 3 months alone. It’s hard to get a nuanced opinion on gold as a holding. There are a lot of extreme opinions. Some people hate gold and think it’s useless. Some people love gold…

Talk Your Book: Investing in Start-Up Equity

On today’s Talk Your Book we speak with Dave Thornton from Vested about abandoned start-up shares, diversification in venture capital, helping start-up employees and the complications involved with exercising options.

Animal Spirits: Did the Market Just Top?

On today’s show we discuss why it’s so difficult to call the top, why earnings matter so much, we were due for a correction, valuations aren’t that crazy, good news for low income Americans, how the housing market is impacting the stock market, why Gold is rocketing higher, the cash on the sidelines fallacy, the crypto liquidation, the problem with being house rich and much more.